A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. [...] Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday, April 13

1) e-mail--I go absolutely bat-shit crazy when something prevents me from checking my e-mail.2) netflix--and to think I used to stand around in the video store wondering what to rent...and to think I paid LATE FEES!3) this blog--SO self-indulgent! SO much fun!4) bloglines--keeps all the blogs I love to read in some semblance of order and starts my day with a batch of fresh new posts.5) hyperlinks--don't you feel like an adventurer when you allow yourself to get lost in a whirl of link buttons until you just don't remember what you started out looking at in the first place?6) wikipedia--all the questionably truthful knowledge you could hope to handle...proof of democracy in action on the internet.7) google maps--no folding required.8) craigslist--take my junk...please!9) Oh my beloved eBay...how did I ever live without you? (I recently reached purple star level with more than 500 positive feedback--I'm foxy!)

and number 10...completely useless web-sites like this one that for some reason suck us in with the power of their sheer pointlessness.

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